The International German Piano Award is a yearly international music competition for classical piano music since 2011. The International Piano Forum is the initiator and organizer of the competition.
The prize money amounts to a total of 20,000 euros and aims to support outstanding pianists. A first international jury elects and nominates pianists under notary procedure. A second jury then votes for the laureate of the International German Piano Award. The following support of the nominated provides concerts at concert halls and contacts to conductors as well as orchestras. The International Piano Forum supports furthermore the production of CDs, websites and an artist portfolio. In the last years, the grand finale took place at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main.
Patrons Valery Gergiev Peter Ramsauer Petra Roth Lars Vogt
Laureates 2011: Amir Tebenikhin 2012: Lukas Geniusas 2013: Dmitri Levkovich – The Audience-Award went to Thomas Wypior 2014: Misha Namirovsky – The Audience-Award went to Albertina Eunju 2015: Yekwon Sunwoo – The Audience-Award went to Andrejs Osokins 2016: Wataru Isasue 2017: Eric Lu – The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Eric Lu 2018: Hans H. Suh – The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Tomoki Sakata 2019: JeungBeum Sohn – The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Luka Okros 2021: Dmitry Ablogin 2022: Konstantin Emelyanov 2023: Andrey Gugnin 2024: Magdalene Ho
Audience Awards 2013: Thomas Wypior 2014: Albertina Eunju Song 2015: Andrejs Osokins 2017: Eric Lu 2018: Tomoki Sakata 2019: Luka Okros 2021: Yekwon Sunwoo 2022: Konstantin Emelyanov 2023: Xuanyi Mao 2024: Maxim Lando
Nominated pianists 2011–2024 2011 Nareh Arghamanyan, Joseph Moog, Christopher Park, Amir Tebenikhin, Hélène Tysman, Anna Winnitskaja,
2012 Ah Ruem Ahn, Lukas Geniusas, Andrey Gugnin, Toghrul Huseynli, Ho Jeong Lee, Igor Levit, Dudana Mazmanishvili, Igor Tchetuev,
2013 Gábor Farkas, Viviana Lasaracina, Dmitri Levkovich, Alexey Pudinov, Edoardo Turbil, Thomas Wypior,
2014 Valentina Babor, David Gray, Lindsay Garritson, Misha Namirovsky, Jie Yuan, Albertina Eunju Song,
2015 François Dumont, Ching-Yun Hu, Alexander Lubyantsev, Maria Mazo, Andrejs Osokins, Yekwon Sunwoo, Georgy Tchaidze, Andrew Tyson, Irene Veneziano, Alexander Yakovlev,
2017 Moye Chen, Zhenni Li, Eric Lu, Fabio Martino, Jiayan Sun, Alexander Yakovlev
2018 Alexei Melnikov Tomoki Sakata Hans H. Suh Antonina Suhanova Alexey Sychev Amadeus Wiesensee
2019 Sergey Belyavskiy Lika Bibileishvili Sahun Hong Rodolfo Leone (Could not participate due to an illness) Luka Okros JeungBeum Sohn2021 Dmitry Ablogin Jean-Selim Abdelmoula Hyelim Kim Jung Eun Séverine Kim Ziyu Liu Yeontaek Oh Ilia Papoian Youngho Park Philipp Scheucher2022 Michelle Candotti Konstantin Emelyanov Ilia Papoian Jinhyung Park Dmitry Sin Slavomir Zaranok2023 Raúl da Costa Andrey Gugnin Uladzislau Khandohi Jean-Michel Kim Seunghyun Lee Xuanyi Mao Alexei Melnikov Ilia Papoian Yongi Woo Suah Ye 2024 Magdalena Ho Fuko Ishii Uladzislau Khandohi Maxim Lando Vitaly Starikov Xiaolu Zang
Members of the jury since 2011
Ogtay Abasguliyev, Azerbaidschan Conrad van Alphen, Netherlands Paul Badura-Skoda, Austria Maurizio Baglini, Italy Eleonore Büning, Germany Alexander Buhr, Germany Hung-Kuan Chen, USA Paul Dan, Germany Gaetan Le Divelec, Great Britain Josep Caballé Domenech, Spain Thomas Duis, Germany Gudni Emilsson, Island Enrico Fischer, Germany Norma Fisher, Great Britain Renchang Fu, People's Republic of China Lukas Geniusas, Russia Petras Geniusas, Lithuania Bernd Goetzke, Germany Giorgi Jordania, Georgia Milton Rubén Laufer, USA Dmitri Levkovich, Ukraine David Lively, USA-France Alexei Ljubimow, Russia Wolfgang Manz, Germany Jura Margulis, Russia Siegfried Mauser, Germany Rudolf Meister, Germany Pablo Mielgo, Spain Dariusz Mikulski, Poland Ekaterina Murina, Russia Michael Ponti, USA Jorge Luis Prats, Kuba Wojciech Rajski, Poland Frederic Anthony Rzewski, Belgium Georg Friedrich Schenck, Germany Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Germany Reinhard Seehafer, Germany Lior Shambadal, Israel Yekwon Sunwoo, South Korea Alexander Tchaikovsky, Russia Amir Tebenikhin, Kazakhstan Pieter Van Winkel, Netherlands Catherine Vickers, Germany Boian Videnoff, Bulgaria Sebastian Weigle, Germany Gregor Willmes, Germany Andrea Zietzschmann, Germany
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